AUDREY Davis, 81 and 48DD, was left stunned and angry after NHS bosses refused to give her breast reduction surgery.

Audrey Davis, 81, she wants a breast reduction on the NHS but they have refused her.

A FUMING great-grandmother has hit out after she was refused breast reduction surgery by the NHS.

Retired shopkeeper Audrey Davis, 81, says she’s in constant pain because of the weight of her 48DD bust.

But her request for a reduction was turned down and she can’t afford to have the operation done privately.

The pensioner said it is unfair that the NHS knocked her back but paid for glamour model Josie Cunningham to have cosmetic surgery to enlarge her boobs.

Audrey said: “It’s disgusting. Because I’m 81, they don’t want to know. I’m in agony and the NHS should do this for me.

“It’s wrong when people like Josie Cunningham get breast implants on the NHS.

“My husband Ron and I have worked hard all our lives but there seems to be one rule for some and another for others.”

Glamour model Josie, 24, had a £4800 operation, funded by the NHS, to increase her boobs from 32AA to 36DD in March last year.

But mum-of-two Josie, from Leeds, complained six months later that the implants were too big.

The model said they made her feel self-conscious and wanted her boobs made smaller – at the taxpayers’ expense.

Mum-of-four Audrey, who lives near Newton Abbot, Devon, added: “I went to my doctor because the weight of my boobs is killing my shoulders and my arms ache.

“I asked if I could have a breast reduction and she told me, ‘No way, it can’t be done’.

“I asked, ‘Is it because of the cost?’ and she said, ‘It’s circumstances. We can’t do all these things’.

“I said, ‘You don’t have to carry the bloody things around’.

“They have been the burden of my life. When I was 12, the boys at school called me Bumpers. They also said I could stop a train with my bust. It was really cruel.

“I’ve always hated my boobs being so big. I get pain in my shoulders and the back of my neck. When I wear a bra, it cuts my shoulders to pieces.

Josie Cunnigham from Leeds, who had a boob job on the NHS to try and boost her TV career

“I can’t stand wearing a bra for more than a couple of hours.

“I must be carrying 14-15lbs on my shoulders. If they took them clean off, it wouldn’t worry me – it would be freedom.

“I’ve tried about 20 different bras – with thin and thick straps, and one with no straps at all but that was no good, it kept falling down.

“I’ve hardly got any flesh on my shoulders as bras rub my shoulders raw. But I feel ashamed when I don’t wear a bra as people stare at you.”

Audrey and Ron, 89, have four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

She said: “When I got married, I had a 38-inch bust, a 17-inch waist, 32-inch hips and weighed seven stone. Ron could put his hands around my waist. But when you’ve had four children, you haven’t got the breasts you had when you were young.”

Audrey’s youngest daughter Susan, 57, doesn’t support her mum’s campaign to have reduction surgery on the NHS.

She said: “NHS money should be spent elsewhere – on younger people who are more needy.”

NHS England said: “Cosmetic surgery, including breast reduction, is rare in the NHS.